I just read in The
New York Times that "Mr. Irving said he believed the
outrage with the Vatican for trying to rehabilitate
Bishop Williamson was orchestrated by Israel to
distract the international community from the recent war in
Gaza."

Is this really true? Do you really believe that the
outrage over this issue is being orchestrated by Israel?

I can tell you that as the
grandchild of Holocaust survivors my outrage has
absolutely nothing, nothing to do with the orchestration of
anything by Israel. This is just an educated guess, but I
would imagine that there are a few other people like me who
might be responding in the same way and for much the same
reason.

It is hard for me not to be outraged by such paranoid
comments that clearly show where the real state of denial
lies.

THANK you for that courteous and
well-reasoned letter. But I think you are wrong. You must
remember, I am an expert on Dr Joseph Goebbels and
Nazi propaganda techniques, and the strategy of striking
back elsewhere, on the flank - for example attacking Britain
over Indian starvation after the Allies started their
information campaign about Nazi concentration camps in the
fall of 1942 - is well documented.

Jews unfortunately do not
appreciate, in their singleminded devotion and loyalty to
Israel, the global criticism and, yes, hatred, that the
recent inhuman and racist attacks by the IDF on the
Palestinians have earned for them worldwide.

A few criminal elements in the
Israeli government have now all but squandered what little
sympathy was generated by the Holocaust for Jews around the
world, many of whom have been of course nowhere near that
tragedy. The next time round, the innocent Jews who suffer
will once again be asking, "Why us?"

I notice incidentally that you
trade on the holocaust by describing yourself as "the
grandson of Holocaust survivors."

Hmmm. That reminds me of
Hadassah Liebermann, wife of the senator, who
described herself proudly on the campaign trail as the
daughter of holocaust survivors. In other words, she was the
daughter of a woman to whom not very much happened, compared
with those who survived Dresden, Hiroshima, Coventry and the
Blitz. She was actually born Hadassah Freilich in a Prague
refugee camp three years after World War II... Not much
suffering there, then.